Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes for a second , and then opened them to see a glimpse of concern on Guy Sterne 's dark face . |
| 2 | To make a start , drill a number of holes close together then join them using a chisel which can be tapped with a mallet . |
| 3 | You switch between them using a memory — resident utility . |
| 4 | Even having formatted column C to show dates you have to enter them using a date function . |
| 5 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 6 | with the thought of them using a saucepan . |
| 7 | At first , the Zuwaitina canteen milk seemed to everyone concerned an instance of just such a letter-of-the-law possession , The realization that it was an issue of constitutional principle came slowly , when the Jordanian 's lawyer ( Abdulsalam Abdulhadi ) outlined his defence . |
| 8 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 9 | A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm . |
| 10 | This hatred of Lloyd George on the part of both Baldwin and MacDonald made it very difficult for the Conservative or Labour Parties to contemplate either coalition with the Liberals , or even a tacit understanding with them to sustain a minority government ; and the politics of the 1920s can not therefore be understood without appreciating the widespread antagonism both to coalition and to Lloyd George personally . |
| 11 | Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil . |
| 12 | If no appropriate child restraint is available for children aged 1 to 4 years old , it is safer for them to wear an adult belt alone , rather than no restraint at all . |
| 13 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 14 | In 1860 , Baron Karl von Reichenbach ( the discoverer of creosote ) published the results of numerous experiments with sensitives using techniques which enabled them to sense an energy which he called ‘ the odic force ’ , ‘ od ’ or ‘ odyle ’ . |
| 15 | Two final points : first , except to imply that , because the rights of ownership in joint stock companies are rarely used , they can be discounted , the chapter offers nothing to support a conclusion that the reduction or abrogation of those rights , such as the ‘ radical extension ’ of the unions ' role would require , would command general support , and second , it gives no guidance on the question whether that ‘ radical extension ’ would create genuine industrial democracy . |
| 16 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
| 17 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 18 | There is nothing wrong with the service and tourism sectors , but overreliance on them produces an economy just as vulnerable to recession as previous versions built around heavy manufacturing industry . |
| 19 | One or other of them drafted a statement which was a flat denial that he had misbehaved either sexually or politically . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't be so fucking patronising , ’ she said , turning her back on me to continue a conversation with Geraldine Porter . |
| 21 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 22 | Cutting their pay will do nothing to induce a recovery . |
| 23 | Nothing destroys a sense of humour more than fear . |
| 24 | Shortly after the formation of Apple Films ( a subsidiary of the Beatles ' Apple Corps Ltd ) , Ringo and his associate Hilary Gerard had approached us to help them make a film about Arthurian legends and " Magical Britain " . |
| 25 | But do n't let them make a pig of you . |
| 26 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 27 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 28 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 29 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 30 | No-one wins a dispute with Graham , so there 's hardly any point indulging in a slanging match . |